GERMAN CREWS
STRIKES 111 BRITISH PORTS. / A CONCERTED MOVEMENT, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, January 16. The German crew of the German cargo steamer Hanover have struck, demanding the English rales of pay, to be paid in English currency. The crew asserted that since they left Hamburg they had boon working for a rate not much in excess of 5s a moiiiitlh in English currency. FIVE CREWS STRIKE AT CARDIFF. LONDON, January 15, (Received January 17, at 1.20 a.m.) Five German crews, totalling 100, struck at Cardiff i.n response to a message from the London Strike Committee balling on all the German seamen in British ports to strike unless the owners were prepared to give the British seamen’s rate of wages in British currency. A crew was sent from Germ any to man a steamer at Cardiff, which was sold to a German company, but the men refused to travel from London to Newport, where the ship was berthed, until the owners complied with the Strike Committee’s order— Reuter.
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Evening Star, Issue 18534, 17 January 1924, Page 4
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